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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Making Lemonade (Floating-point format changes)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 18:04:42 +0000
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BGB wrote:

> On 5/19/2024 7:10 PM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>> 
>> Kahan has several lectures about this....
>> 

> There have been apparently more things killed off by slow performance 
> than by lack of FPU accuracy.

> Say, at the time, performance apparently killed off:
>    Amiga (killed off by its slow graphics)
>      Bit planar graphics rather sucking if one wants fast screen
> redraws;
>    M68K, killed off for being too slow vs x86;
>    Cyrix, because its Pentium equivalent was slow at running Quake;
>    ...

Mc68K (most of it at least) is living out its days as an automotive 
engine controller.